GGs, I've found some tool inventories of the carpenter shop of Hudson's
Bay Company's Fort Vancouver, [
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Vancouver> for the historical
context, <http://www.nps.gov/fova/index.htm> for the modern National
Park Service reconstruction,] for 1845, that I hope someone can help
identify. Among the various types of planes that I CAN figure out (see
full inventory below). are listed "1 case plane" and 1 rubber plane."
I've tried searching both via Google and in the OT message archive, but
the various uses and alternative meanings of the two separate words in
each case yields only frustration. Can anyone here describe for me,
and/or point me to web resources on, mid-19th century woodworking tools
known as "case plane" and "rubber plane"? TIA, Tom Holloway
<http://furfortfunfacts.blogspot.com/>

Here is the complete inventory for 1845 [with a few notes by me in
square brackets], which might help in figuring out what case planes and
rubber planes are NOT:6 adzes 4 large square head axes 12 grooving axes
8 screw augers [probably large =93T=94 augers, for boring holes in
beams] 6 shell augers 1 brace [and] 36 bits1 hand saw file 1 pair
compasses 1 screw driver 4 gouges 1 small square, 6 inch 3 assorted
gimlets 4 spike gimlets 1 jointer plane 3 trying planes 4 jack planes 1
hand plane [probably a small smoothing plane] 2 pair grooving planes 11-
1/8 [number meaning unclear] 3 bead planes 2 molding planes 1 hand saw 3
tenon saws 2 window planes 1 case plane =09 1 rubber plane 1 half round
file 12 inches 3 bastard files 1 pit saw file 1 cross cut saw file 2 rat
tail files 3 flat bastard files 3 plough keys 1 oil stone 6 shingling
axes 2 key hole saws 1 pair pincers 10 assorted chisels 9 socket chisels
3 kent hammers 3 foot rules

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